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On November 27, 1997 MTV aired a special Thaksgiving show featuring america's sweethearts Beavis and Butthead. B&Bs final episode was set to air the folowwing night on the network so this was a perfect opportunity for MTV to promote the boys' final episode the day before the series finale. So watch now as Kurt Loader tries to teach the boys the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

Forever Fun , a company which has changed its name multiple times in the last five years has a new assortment of Peanuts toys and accessories for this Holiday season. Every year they offer a nice batch of poseable figures, mini figures and Christmas tree ornaments celebrating the classic Christmas special featuring good old Charlie Brown and Company. This year the assortment of poseable figures is back with new accessories as well as a new build a tree promo which basically steals the idea of DC Classics' buid -a-figure line by having each figure come with a bonus piece which once put together makes a big Christmas tree. This year's mini figures set focuses on the Christmas pageant nativity scene. Two new play packs featuring poseable figures of Linus & Sally and Lucy and Charlie also focus on the nativity scene by including the characters dressed up and accessorized as Mary, Joseph, Angels, and baby Jesus (Woodstock). Also in this year's assortment we get a couple...

Back in the days of the original trilogy Kenner released an incredible amount of figures, vehicles, playsets , and accessories so incredibly awesome that to this day many of those items are better than anything produced in recent years. Some of the molds for the vehicles were reused countless times for the modern era line which kicked of in the mid 90s and is still going strong. Unfortunately the last couple of years Hasbro had seemed to run out of ideas on how to bring back a sense of excitement to the original trilogy product line and I truly lost interest in Hasbro's Star Wars offerings. Most of the Clone Wars stuff is just terrible and it seemed to become the focus of Hasbro's product output. Fortunately this year Hasbro has gone back to the original trilogy characters and vehicles in a big way in order to help celebrate the 30 th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. To end the year a third wave of vintage figures has just started to show up on the pegs based on Ret...

With the upcoming release of TRON LEGACY on December 17, Spin Master has unleashed a massive assortment of toys based on the upcoming sequel to the cult classic 80s video game adventure flick. Spin Master is known for cheapo toy lines such as last summer's M Night Shyamalan Crap Fest The Last Airbender . I'm happy to say this new line of Tron figures could be the toy line that changes everything for Spin Master. I'll go into more detail on the other pieces in the line in future posts. This time around I'll be focusing on the totally radical Impulse Projection Technology figures . Four figures are now available as part of this 7 inch line including Clu , Sam, Rinzler and a Blackguard. There's also a 12 inch Sam figure with the same features and even more lights. I picked up the 7 inch Clu and Sam figures last week and haven't been able to stop playing around with them. The impulse projection technology makes it possible for an image of the character's face...

Both Target and Toys R Us are celebrating the 30 th anniversary of EMPIRE and the new season of Clone Wars with major resets to their shelves in order to focus on new Star Wars products as well as great deals and exclusives. The Target reset takes place on the 17 th of October but most stores in my area already have everything up. I was able to pick up their exclusive vintage packaging Rebel Snowspeder and the Attack & Defense of Hoth battle packs. You can also get Saga Legends and Clone Wars action figures for 5 bucks a piece 'till Sunday. Toys R Us also has a great display at the front of the store and they have the exclusive vintage packaging Snow AT-AT from Empire available. For Tron fans a lot of merchandise from the upcoming TRON LEGACY is popping up at both Target and TRU . I found some Target exclusives at my local store too. Happy Hunting!

The Summer of 1989 was a big one for movie fans. With such major releases as Batman, Star Trek 5, Indiana Jones and the last crusade and Ghostbusters 2, it almost felt like every week during the summer there was a major event taking place across cinema screens. Fast food restaurants got in on the action with major promotional campaigns which tied-in to some of these big films. Two fast food joints that were relatively new to the movie tie-in world ended up acquiring the license for two huge films. Batman was picked up by Taco Bell and Ghostbuster 2 was snatched by Hardee's. Hardee's truly pulled out all the stops with a campaign that featured in store premiums, specialty food items and T.V. & print ads. The restaurant chain even produced a Ghostbusters themed commercial advertising their line of Ghostbusters soundmakers toys. More on the sound makers fiasco in a moment. The commercial aired constantly during the tie-in promotion which ran from June 26 to July 23. Kids cou...

During a recent search for vintage Masters of the Universe items on ebay I came across the following aberration worse than anything ever summoned from the depths of Snake Mountain. It seems back in the 80s someone went through the trouble of putting together a boootleg line of Masters toys and role play accessories down in Mexico. I found a great deals of images from the He-Man figure as well as the weapons and mask set. Here are some of the worst ones. Enjoy... This is one scary ass looking He-Man mask. It doesn't even seem to come with anything to hold it up to your face. I love how they ripped off the artwork from some of the early Mini Comics to use on the cheapo cardboard top. The weapon (whatever the hell it is) looks like something similar to what Hordak would have, not He-Man. Feel free to comment and let me know if you've seen these before or any other example of Mexican Amos del Universo bootlegs.